“(CNN) -- Tests detected low levels of radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy helicopter crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan after conducting disaster relief missions in Japan, the military said Monday.
No further contamination was detected after the crew members washed with soap and water, the Navy said.
In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.
One ship was operating about 100 miles northeast of the power plant when "airborne radioactivity" was detected, the Navy said…”
I said in my blog post “Blast and radiation leak in Japan” that we would be hearing a lot more about the subject of radiation soon. But since then there has been a second blast and more details are coming out.
I did not think about fall out on our navy ships or on aircraft responding to help. I did think about fall out on people going in to help. This is a big disaster. The addition of the nuclear problem makes it so much bigger and harder to deal with for Japan and the world.
I was in Civil Defense when I was in high school. I missed as much high school as I could and did not do my home work but I did attend CD meetings, at the city hall, and was studying CD stuff. (I should have paid more attention to my school work. )
I also took a radiological monitoring course for the CD at the UMKC. I am sure I have forgot most of the information now.
The military will be right on top of this danger and have the equipment and training to deal with it. It will also be good training for our people. We need to learn and test out our people, their training and their equipment.
This also again reminds of how hard the job that our military has to do for us and how important they are to us all.
It is also a warning and a wake up call to all of us just how much danger there is in anything having to do with nuclear. (My father helped to build an h-bomb plant in GA. He was a boilermaker/welder.)
I got a feeling this is going to be a lot worst than we think right now. Soap and water will get rid of the fall out but some people are going to get it in their lungs.
Republicans were screaming that we should privatize Social Security and have people put their money into Wall Street, banks and insurance corporations. Well thanks to the Republicans all those went to hell. So the Republicans shut up, for now, about taking your Social Security money and giving it to the big money corporations.
Then the Republicans were jumping up and down and screaming “DRILL BABY DRILL.” Yes, then there was BP Oil spill.
Well the Republicans been calling for the building of nuclear power plants in the United States and now look what has taken place.
God seems to hate the Republicans. The Republican always seem to be on the wrong side of issues. How can they be so wrong all of the time?
Comments